Udmurt Links - Collection of links from the Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples.
Udmurts - Profile of the Udmurt people, from NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies.
MorzeFish - Media project focused on youth-generated modern culture of the ancient land of Udmurtia.
National Centre of Arts and Crafts - Aims to preserve and develop the decorative applied folk arts and everyday culture through teaching and exhibitions.
Udmurt - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) member page for Udmurt.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Udmurt "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Udmurt
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Udmurt "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Udmurt
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Udmurt All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Udmurt
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Udmurt In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Udmurt
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Udmurt Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Udmurt
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Udmurt When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Udmurt
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Udmurt A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Udmurt
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Udmurt "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Udmurt
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Udmurt Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Udmurt
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Udmurt If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Udmurt
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Udmurt The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Udmurt
